The Mahalo Top 7
- Wikipedia: Manifest Destiny
- Grinnell College: John O'Sullivan, "Annexation"... (July-August 1845)
- All Empires: Was it Manifest Destiny?
- Digital History: Manifest Destiny
- Learner.org: America Unbridled: The Iron Horse and Manifest Destiny
- From Revolution to Reconstruction: Manifest Destiny
- YouTube Video: Robert Hughes - American Visions (Time 10:37)
Manifest Destiny Background and Causes
- UC Santa Cruz: Manifest Destiny and Expansion in the Americas
Continentalism
- Wikipedia: Continentalism
- World Policy Journal: The American Empire? Not So Fast (Spring 2005)
- Google Books: A Companion to the American West
"Fifty Four Forty or Fight"
- Wikipedia: All Oregon | Oregon Boundary Dispute
- Smithsonian Institution: The Oregon Question
- Google Books: Oregon, The Struggle for Possession
Mexico and Texas
- Descendants of Mexican War Veterans: The Occupation of New Mexico
- U.S. Army Center of Military History: The Occupation Of Mexico, May 1846-July 1848
- Military History Encyclopedia: Mexican War
- Academic American History: The Republic of Texas and the Mexican-American War
- Avalon Project (Yale University): Message of President Polk, May 11, 1846
- Wikisource: James K. Polk's Third State of The Union Address
- Son of the South: President Polk's Message To Congress On The Mexican War
- Office of Medical History: The War With Mexico: Scott's Campaign
The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Our Documents: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- California State Military Department: The Treaty Of Guadelupe Hidalgo
- PBS: The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Manifest Destiny Central Figures
John L. O'Sullivan
- Wikipedia: John L. O'Sullivan
- Historytools: John L.O'Sullivan
- Civics Online: John L. O'Sullivan
James K. Polk
- Mahalo's Guide to James K. Polk
- PBS: James Knox Polk
- James K. Polk.org: James K. Polk
- State Library of North Carolina: James K Polk
John Tyler
- Mahalo's Guide to John Tyler
- White House.gov: John Tyler
- Wikipedia: John Tyler
- Sage History: The John Tyler Administration A President without a Party
Winfield Scott
- Wikipedia: Winfield Scott
- Home of the American Civil War: Winfield Scott
- The Story Of Virginia: Winfield Scott
Manifest Destiny Images and Media
- Google Images: Manifest Destiny Photos
- Yahoo! Images: Manifest Destiny Photos
- YouTube Video: Robert Hughes - American Visions - Third Episode - part 1 of 6 (Time: 10:46)
- YouTube Video: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (Time 4:07)
Manifest Destiny Books and Research
- Google Books: Manifest Destiny Books
- Amazon.com: Manifest Destiny Books
- Questia: Andrew Jackson
- Questia: Manifest Destiny A Study of National Expansionism in American History
- The University of Texas at Austin: Manifest Destiny’s Legacy
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Manifest Destiny Blogs and Articles
- Political Review Net: A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
- Rob-Payne.com: Blog Jacksonian Manifest Destiny (November 20, 2007)
- TIME: Manifest Destiny (Feb. 08, 1999)
Manifest Destiny Timeline
- 1803: The Louisiana Purchase treaty is signed on April 30 in Paris
- 1839: John O'Sullivan writes of "Manifest Destiny," in the Democratic Review magazine
- 1845: Texas joins the Union as the twenty-eighth state on March 1
- 1846: Mexican troops attack US troops along the southern border of Texas on April 26
- 1846: U.S. Congress approves a declaration of war with Mexico on May 13
- 1847: March Winfield Scott begins his march inland toward Mexico City
- 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo is signed on February 2
- 1848: The U.S. adds Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico
- 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs The Homestead Act on May 20
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